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DIRECTIONS 



" Give me a key to this, 
And instantly uulock my fortunes here." 

Merchant of Venice. 



There are thirteen questions, and to each question there are fifty 
answers. The person who is to act as " fortune teller " must take the 
book, and ask the questions in the order in which they are arranged, 
and as each question is asked, the inquirer choses a number (under fifty 
of course) ; the " fortune teller " then turns to the number chosen, reads 
aloud the oracle attached to it, and so proceeds through the thirteen 
questions. 

The entertainment is much enhanced by having a circle of inquirers, 
in which case each individual must choose a number and receive an 
answer to the question asked before the fortune teller proceeds to the 
next question. 



THE QUESTIONS, 



IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THET ARE TO BE ASKED. 



Page 
No. 1, What does the world think of you ? 7 

2. What is the personal appearance of the lady you love ? . IT 

3. What is the personal appearance of him you love ? . .27 

4. What is the character of the lady you love ? . .37 

5. What is the character of him you love ? . . .47 

6. When, or where, will you first meet? 57 

7. What will the one you love be doing when you first meet ? 67 

8. What will the one you love say to you ? . . .79 

9. What must you do to win the one you love? ... 98 

10. Will you ever be married ? 105 

11. For what have you a partiality ? 117 

12. What will you have occasion to fear ? .... 127 

13. What is your destiny? ....*.. 187 



QUESTION I. 



S&fiat hots tit Mollis tjjtok of fou? 



" Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, 
Nor set down aught in malice." 

Othello. 

"give me leave 
To speak my mind." 

Aa You Like It. 



WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU1 



That you live — 

As if a man were author of himself 

And knew no other kin. 

Coriolanus. 



That you are as tedious as a twice told tale. 

King John. 



3. It were a vice to know you. 

Hamlet. 



That he that depends 
Upon your favors, swims with fins of lead, 
And hews down oaks with rushes. — 
With every minute you do change a mind, 
And call that noble, that was now your hate, 
That vile that was your garland. 

Coriolanus. 

That the worst fault you have, is to be in love. 

As You Like It. 
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10 WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU? 

6. Your name is great, 
In mouths of wisest censure. 

Othello. 

7. Opinion crowns you 
With an imperial grace. 

Troilus Sf Cressida. 

8. — A world of vile, ill-favored faults, 

Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. 
Merry Wives of Windsor. 

9. As of one who speaks an infinite deal of nothing. 
Your reasons are as two grains of wheat in two 
bushels of chaff: one shall seek them all day ere he 
find them ; and when found, they are not worth the 
search. 

Merchant of Venice. 

10- You've won golden opinions from all sorts of people. 

Macbeth. 

11. As of one who dulls his palm with entertainment 
Of each new-hatched, unfledged comrade. 

Hamlet. 

12. That you are not worth the dust which the rude wind 
Blows in your face. 

King Lear. 

13. That thou hast, 
Neither heat, affection, limb nor beauty, 
To make thy riches pleasant. 

Measure for Measure. 



WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU? 11 

14. As one of infinite jest and most excellent fancy. 

Hamlet. 

15. As a candle, the better part burnt out. 

Henry IV. 

16. None are so poor to do you reverence. 

Julius Ccesar. 



17- That you have ventured. 

Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, 
This many summers in a sea of glory, 
But far beyond your depth. 

Henry VIII. 

18. That you are weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. 

Hamlet. 

19. That smoke and luke-warm water 
Is your perfection. 

Timon of Athens. 

20. As of one on whose foolish honesty 

Its practices ride easy. 

King Lear. 

21. That you are born to speak all mirth, 
And no matter. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

22. I am almost ashamed 

To say what good report it holds you in. 

King John. 



12 WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU? 

23. Your integrity- 
Stands without blemish. 

Measure for Measure. 

24. It thinks you the most pathetical break-promise, 
and the most hollow lover that may be chosen out 
of the gross band of the unfaithful. 

As You Like It. 

25. That you are of imagination all compact. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

26. All tongues speak of you, and the bleared sights 
Are spectacled to see you ; the prattling nurse 
Into a rapture lets her baby cry, 

While she chats of you. 

Coriolatius. 



27. As one who lacks gall to make oppression bitter. 

Hamlet. 



28. As fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, 
Where manners ne'er were preached. 

Twelfth Night. 

29. As a counterfeit which, being touched and tried, 
Proves valueless. 

King John. 

30. Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low. 

Henry VI. 



WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OF YOU? 13 



3L It wonders 

Your insolence can brook to be commanded. 

Coriolanus. 



32. You are gracious in the people's eye. 

Henry VI. 



33 You bear its blushing honors thick upon you. 

Henry VIII. 



34. It would not trust your own report 
Against yourself. 



Hamlet. 



35. Nobody marks you. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



36. That you are one of those gentle ones 

That will use the devil himself with 

Courtesy. 

Twelfth Night. 



37. Giddy people flock to you. 

Henry VI. 



38. As Sir Oracle, 

And when you ope your lips let no dog bark. 

Merchant of Venice. 



39. That there is little of the melancholy in you ; you 
are never sad but when you sleep, and not even sad 



14 WHAT DOES THE WORLD THIXK OF YOU ? 

then, for I have heard that you often dream of mis- 
chief and wake yourself laughing. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



40. Only it has left to say 

More is thy due, than more than all can pay. 

Macbeth. 



41. That idle weeds are fast in growth. 

Richard III. 



42. You nave sounded all the depths and shoals of 

honor. 

Henry VIII. 

43. It does applaud you to the very echo, 
Which does applaud again. 

Macbeth. 



44. That you repent ; marry not in sackcloth and ashes 
but in new silk and old sack. 

Henry IV. 



45. That you are to one thing constant never. 

Much Ado about Not hint 



46. As of the most notorious geek and gull 
That e ? er invention played on. 

Twelfth Night. 



WHAT DOES THE WORLD THINK OP YOU? 15 

47. That you are most tolerable, and not to be endured. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

48. That you possess a most excellent devil of wit. 

Twelfth JYight. 

49. It says, you are not fair ; that you lack manners ; 
it calls you proud, and that it could not love you, 
were you as rare as Phoenix. 

Jls You Like It. 

50. That you never were forsworn ; 

Scarcely have coveted what was your own ; 
At no time broke your faith ; would not betray 
The devil to his fellow ; and delight 

No less in truth, than life. 

Macbeth. 



QUESTION II, 



Sitfjat is tit ^jerjsonal Eppmranw of tit Stairs s ou BLotit? 



'• I will give out divers schedules of her beauty ; it shall be inventoried, 
and every particle and utensil labelled to my will: as item, two lips, in- 
different red ; item, two grey eyes, with lids to them ; item, one neck, 
one chin, and so forth." 

Twelfth Night. 

"We will draw the curtain and show the picture; look you, sir." 

Twelfth Night. 



WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF THE 
LADY YOTJ LOVE? 



1, She looks as clear 

As morning roses newly washed with dew. 

Taming the Shrew. 

2. Her beauty hangs upon the cheek of night, 
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



3, She is too low for a high praise, too brown for a 
fair praise ; and too little for a great praise ; only 
this commendation I can afford her, that were she 
other than she is, she were unhandsome. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

4, Long walked hand in hand with time. 

Troilus Sf CressidcL. 

5, The prettiest low-born lass, that ever 

Ran on the green sward, nothing she does or seems, 

But smacks of something greater than herself: 

Too noble for her place. 

Winter's Tale. 



20 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

6. She has brown hair, and speaks small. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

7. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white, 
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 

Twelfth JVight. 

8. inky brows, black-silk hair, 

bugle eye-balls, cheek of cream. 

MVs Well that Ends Well. 

9. She excels each mortal thing, 
Upon the dull earth dwelling. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

10. Her cheek is ready with a blush, 

Modest as morning, when she coldly eyes 
The youthful Phoebus. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



11. The unmatched form and feature of blown youth. 

Hamlet. 

12. Of nature's gifts, she may with lilies boast, 
And with the half-blown rose. 

King John. 

13. Excellently done, if God did all. 

Twelfth JVight. 

14. God has given her one face, and she makes herself 

another. 

Hamlet. 



OF THE LADY YOU LOVE ? 21 



15. Her face, the book of praises, where is read 
Nothing but curious pleasures. 

Pericles. 



16. A goodly lady, trust me, of the hue 

That I would choose, were I to choose anew. 

Titus Jlndronicus. 

17. her beauty claims, 

No worse a husband, than the best of men. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

18. Her eyes are lode-stars ; and her tongue's sweet air, 
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear, 

When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear. 
Midsummer Night's Dream. 

19. In her youth 

There is a pure and speechless dialect, 
Such as moves men. 

Measure for Measure. 

20. Most radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable beauty. 

Twelfth JVight. 

21. Her eye in heaven 

"Would through the airy region stream so bright, 
That birds would sing, and think it were not night. 
Romeo and Juliet. 

22. She has a leathern hand, 

A free-stone colored hand ; I verily did think 



22 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

That her old gloves were on ; but 'twas her hand ; 
She has a huswife's hand. 

As You Like It. 

23. She in beauty, education, blood, 

Holds rank with any princess of the world. 

King John. 

24. What peremptory, eagle-sighted eye, 
Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, 
That is not blinded by her majesty. 

Love's Labor Lost. 

25. As bright and clear, 

As yonder Venus in her glimmering sphere. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

26. Scratching could not make it worse 
An 'twere such a face as yours. 

Much Ado about JVothing. 

27. She hath a pretty foot, 
A cherry lip, 

A bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue. 

Richard III. 

28. She is fair as a fair day in summer, wondrous fair. 

Pericles. 

29. Heaven bless her, 

She has the sweetest face I ever looked on. 

Sir, as I live, she is an angel. 

Henry VUJ. 



OF THE LADY YOU LOVE? 23 

30. A withered hermit, five score winters worn, 
Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



31. Her beauty does astonish the survey 

Of richest eyes ; her words, all souls take captive. 
AlVs Well that Ends Well. 



32. An excellent complexion, which does steal 
The eyes of young and old. 

Pericles. 



She hangs her head, 
As flowers with frost, or grass beat down with storm. 
Titus Andronicus. 



34. The sweetest lady that I ever looked on. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

35. The all-seeing sun 

Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 
Romeo and Juliet, 

36. A February face, 

Full of frost, of storm and cloudiness. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

37. The hand that made her fair, made her also good. 

Measure for Measure. 



24 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

38. That she is fair, is most infallible ; that she is 
beauteous, truth itself. 

Love's Labor Lost, 

39. You are as rich, in having such a jewel, 
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, 
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

40. She has a good eye, she can see a church by daylight. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



41. Fairer than tongue can name her. 

Richard III. 



42. Her warped looks proclaim 
What stone her heart is made of. 

King Lear. 

43. Green and pale 

Macbeth. 



44. There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, 
Nay, her foot speaks. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



45. Her looks do argue her replete with modesty ; 
Her words do show her wit incomparable ; 
All her perfections challenge sovereignty. 

Henry VI. 



OF THE LADY YOU LOVE If 25 

46. Oh ! queen of queens, how far she doth excel. 
No thought can think, no mortal tongue can tell. 

Love's Labor Lost. 

47. The most replenished sweet work of nature, 
That from the prime creation, e'er she framed. 

Richard HI. 

48- Her lovely face rules like a wandering planet. 

Henry VI. 

49. Of all complexions the culled sovereignty, 
Do meet as at a fair, in her fair cheek. 

Love's Labor Lost. 

50. the most peerless piece of earth 

That e ? er the sun shone bright on, 

Winter's Tale. 



QUESTION III. 



SHftat is tfc* ^personal &ppf.arante of $,im sou HLok? 



' To be a well-favored man is the gift of fortune." 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

" What was he like ? 
I have forgot him." 

AIVs Well tliat Ends Well. 

1 Fa-ir maid, send forth thine eye ; this youthful parcel 
Of noble bachelors stand at my bestowing." 

All's Well that Ends Well. 



WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF HIM 
YOU LOVE? 



i. It is a pretty youth 

He'll make a proper man : the best thing in him 
Is his complexion ; and faster than his tongue 
Does make offence, his eye does heal it up. 
He is not tall, yet for his years he's tall : 
His leg is but so so : and yet 'tis well : 
There is a pretty redness in his lip: 
A little riper and more lusty red 
Than that mixed with his cheek ; 'tis just the differ- 
ence 
Betwixt the constant red and mingled damask. 

As You Like It. 

2, He's fat and scant o' breath. 

3 He has but a wee face, with a little yellow beard. 
Merry Wives of Windsor, 

4. Ah ! what a deal of scorn looks beautiful 
In the contempt and anger of his lip. 

Twelfth Night. 



D WHAT IS THE PL'RSOXAL APPEARANCE 

5. A hungry, lean-faced man, 

A mere anatomy, a mountebank, 

A thread-bare juggler, and a fortune-teller. 

Comedy of Errors. 

t>, A sweet-faced man ; a proper man as one shall *"P 
in a summer's day ; a most lovely, gentlemanlike 
man. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

7, A sweeter and a lovelier gentleman, 
Framed in the prodigality of nature, 
Young, valiant, wise, 
The spacious earth cannot afford again. 

Richard III. 



8. The glass of fashion and the mould of form, 
The observed of all observers. 

Hamlet 



9. The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes, ai 
when he walks, he moves like an engine. 

Coriolanus. 



10. careful hours, with time's deformed hand 

Have written strange defeatures in his face. 

Comedy of Errors 

11, He wears the rose of youth upon him. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



OF HTM YOU LOVE. ? 31 

12. No mortal 's so magnificent. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



13. One that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, 
Yet shows himself a young gallant. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



14. Each particular hair does stand on end 
Like quills upon the fretful porcupine. 

Hamlet. 



15. Not old enough for a man, nor young enough foi 
a boy 5 he is very well favored, and speaks very 
shrew ishly. 

Twelfth JVight. 



16. Why this is he 

That kissed away his hand in courtesy ; 
This is the ape of form, monsieur the nice, 
That, when he plays at tables, chides the dice 
In honorable terms ; * * * * * 
* * * the ladies call him sweet ; 

The stairs, as he treads on them, kiss his feet : 
This is the flower that smiles on every one, 
To show his teeth as white as whales' bone. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



17. He has a good leg, and a good foot, and money 
enough in his purse to win any woman in the world. 
Much Ado about Nothing. 



32 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

18. A brittle glory shineth in his face. 

Richard II. 

19. A very foolish fond old man, 
Fourscore and upwards. 

King Lear. 

20. He has a shape to win grace, though he had no wit. 

Love's Labor Lost. 

21. His looks are full of peaceful majesty, 

His head by nature framed to wear a crown. 

Henry VI. 

22. Youth and comeliness pluck all gaze his way. 

Coriolanus. 

23. The knave is handsome, young ; and has all those 
requisites in him that folly and green maids look 
after. 

Othello. 

24. Is he not stupid 

With age and altering rheums? Can he speak? — 

hear? 
Know man from man ? dispose his own estate ? 

Winter's Tale. 

25. he droops — like over-r ; pen!-d corn 

Hanging Hip bead at Ceres' plenteous load. 

Henry VI 



OP HTM YOU LOVE ? 33 

26. A school boy with his satchel, 
And shining morning face. 

As You Like It. 

27. He is the mark and glass, copy and book, 
That fashions others. A wondrous him ! 
A miracle oi men . 

Henry IV. 

28. He is deformed, crooked, old and sere ; 

111 faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere. 

Comedy of Errors. 



29. He hath but a little beard, but time will send him 
more if the man be thankful. 

As You Like It. 



30. He hath a stern look, but a gentle heart. 

King John. 

31, So lean that blasts of January 
Will blow him through and through. 

Winter's Tale. 



32. Neither the accent of Christian, nor the gait of 
Christian, pagan, nor man ; he so struts and bellows 
that I have thought that some of nature's journey- 
men had made him, and not made him well, he imi- 
tates humanity so abominably. 

Hamlet. 

2* 



34 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE 

33. Will you not observe 

The strangeness of his altered countenance? 
With what a majesty he bears himself. 

Henry VI. 

34. Passed 

Into the lean and slippered pantaloon ; 
With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; 
The youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide 
For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, 
Turning again towards childish treble, pipes 
And whistles in his sound. 

As You Like It. 

35. Does he not hold up his head, as it were, 
And strut in his gait ? 

Merry Wives of Windsor, 

36. His hair's upreared, his nostril stretched, 

His well proportioned beard left rough and ragged. 

Henry VI. 

37. The strain of man bred out 
Into baboon and monkey. 

Timon of Athens. 

38. Trimmed like a yonker prancing to his love. 

Henry VI. 

39. The front of Jove himself ; 

An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; 



OF HIM YOU LOVE? 35 

A station like the herald Mercury 
New-lighted on a heaven kissing hill ; 
A combination and a form indeed, 
Where every god did seem to set his seal, 
To give the world assurance of a man. 

Hamlet, 

40. Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale and bloodless. 

Henry VI. 

41. There is either liquor in his pate, or money in his 
purse, he looks so merry. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

42. A lean cheek, a blue eye and sunken ; a beard 
neglected, hose ungartered, bonnet unhanded, sleeve 
unbuttoned, shoe untied, and everything about him 
denoting a careless desolation. 

Jls You Like It. 



43. He does swell his face into more lines, than are in 
the new map with the augmentation of the Indies. 

Twelfth JYight. 

44. Let him sell his face for five pence and 'tis dear. 



45. He capers, he dances, he has the eyes of youth ; 
He writes verses, he speaks holiday, 
He smells April and May. 

Merry Wives of Windsor 



36 WHAT IS THE PERSONAL APPEARANCE ETC 

46. A robustious, periwig-pated fellow. 

Hamlet. 

47. his brow, like to a title-page, 

Foretells the nature of a tragic volume. 

Henry IV. 

48. A fair round belly with good capon lined, 
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut. 

As You Like It. 



49. His very hair is of the dissembling color, 
Something browner than Judas'. 

As You Like It. 



50. Has he not a moist eye? a dry hand ? a yellow 
cheek? a white beard? a decreasing leg? an increas- 
ing belly ? Is not his voice broken ? his chin double ? 
his wit single ? and every part about him blasted 
with antiquity ? 

Henry IF. 



QUESTION IV. 



tjs tf)t QLfaxKttzi of tfc* 3U&B sou 3Ufa? 



'Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, 
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind." 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

" You that choose not by the view. 
Chance as fair, and choose as true." 

Merchant of Venice, 



WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF THE LADY YOU LOVE 1 



-to praise her, were 



To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, 
To throw a perfume on the violet, 
To smooth the ice, to add another hue 
Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light 
To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish. 

King John. 

2. she is so intolerably curst, 

And shrewd, and froward, so beyond all measure, 
That were my estate far worser than it is 
I would not wed her for a mine of gold. 

Taming the Shrew. 

3, Nature never framed a woman's heart of prouder 

stuff. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



4. ! she is gentle, mild, and virtuous. 

Richard TIL 



5. She will keep no fool, sir, until she be married. 

Twelfth Night. 



40 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OP 

6. The mute wonder lurketh in men's ears, 
To steal her sweet and honeyed sentences. 

Henry V. 



She will weep for nothing, like Diana in the foun- 
tain, when thou art disposed to be merry ; and will 
laugh like a hyena when thou art disposed to sleep. 

As You Like It. 



8. Sacred and sweet is all I see in her. 

Taming the Shrew. 



A maiden never bold ; 

Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion 

Blushes at herself 

Othello. 



10. She is peevish, sullen, froward, 

Proud, disobedient, stubborn, lacking duty. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



U, Her voice is soft and low, 

An excellent thing in woman. 

King Lear. 



12. 0, when she is angry, she is keen and shrewd ; 
She was a vixen when she went to school ; 
And though she be but little, she is fierce. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



THE LADY YOU LOVE? 41 

13. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

14. like a sweet melodious bird she sings 

Sweet varied notes, enchanting every ear. 

Titus Andronicus. 

15. She is a virtuous, and a reverend lady. 

Comedy of Errors. 

16. Modest as justice, and she seems a palace 
For crowned truth to dwell in. 

Pericles. 

17. She is effeminate, changeable, longing and liking • 
proud, fantastical, apish, shallow, inconstant, full of 
tears, full of smiles ; for every passion something, 
and for no passion anything ; will now like thee, 
now loathe thee, then entertain thee, then forswear 
thee. 

As You Like It. 



18. A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, 
Were not so rich a jewel. 

Coriolanus. 



19. A virtuous gentlewoman, mild and beautiful. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

20. She will come near your beauty with her nails, 
And set her ten commandments in your face. 

Henry VI. 



42 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OP 

21. a good lady, and a wise and virtuous. 

I tell you, he that can lay hold on her 
Shall have the chinks. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

22. She'll comb your noddle with a three-legged stool, 
And paint your face, and use you like a fool. 

Taming the Shrew. 

23. So perfect and so peerless, she's created 
Of every creature's best. 

Tempest, 

24. She had "rather hear her dog bark at a crow, than 
a man swear he loves her. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

25 Chaste as the icicle 

That's curded by the frost from purest snow, 
And hangs on Dian's temple. 

Coriolanus. 

26. A belle in her parlor, a wild cat in her kitchen, 
A saint in her injuries, a devil being offended. 

Othello. 

27. She taketh most delight in music, instruments, and 

poetry. 

Taming the Shrew. 

28. A very forward March chick. 

Much Ado about Nothing, 



the lady you love? 43 

29. Of good discourse, an excellent musician. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

30. She bears a purse ;* she is a region in Guiana, 
All gold and bounty. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

31. Trust not the cunning waters of her eyes. 

King John. 

32. She's a most exquisite lady; a most fresh and 
delicate creature. 

Othello. 

33. She'll hamper thee, and dandle thee like a baby. 

Henry VI. 

34. She will be bright, and shine in pearls. 

Titus Andronicus. 

35. Her passions are made of nothing but the finest 
part of pure love. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



36. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. 

Much Ado about Nothini 



37. She is so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a dispo- 
sition, that she holds it a vice, in her goodness, not 
to do more than is requested. 

Othello 



44 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF 

38. A heart unspotted, * * * 

The purest spring is not more free from mud. 

Henry VI. 

39. She is in her salad days, 
Green in judgment, cold in blood. 

Antony and Cleopairu. 



40. She is importunate ; indeed distract ; 
Her mood will needs be pitied. 

Hamhi 



41. Out of measure sad. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



42. Full of repentance, 

Continual meditations, tears and sorrows. 

Henry VIII. 

43 Of great estate, of fresh and stainless youth. 

Twelfth Night. 



44. Full of warm blood, of mirth, of gossipping. 

King John. 



45. You shall find her the infernal Ate in good ap- 
parel ; all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follow 
her. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



THE LADY YOU LOVE ? 45 

46. She is as wise as she is beautiful. 

Midsummer Night's Dream- 

47. She does outstrip all praise, 
And makes it halt behind her. 

Tempest. 

48. I would my horse had the speed of her tongue. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

49. She puts her tongue a little in her heart, 
And chides with thinking. 

Othello 

50. She'll never tell her love ; 

But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, 
Feed on her damask cheek ; she'll pine in thought, 
And, with a green and yellow melancholy, 
She'll sit like Patience on a monument, 
Smiling at Grief. 

Twelfth Night. 



QUESTION V, 



is tf&z <£f)arwttr of Htm jou HLofcuc? 



"Ipr'y thee, let me be better acquainted with thee." 

As You Like It. 



Shall I produce the man ? " 

King John. 



WHAT IS THE CHARACTER OF HIM YOU LOVE ? 



1, He sits among men like a descended god ; 
He hath a kind of honor sets him off, 
More than a mortal seeming. 

Cymbeline. 



2. A feather for each wind that blows. 

Winter's Tale. 



3, In his brain, 

Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit 

After a voyage, he hath strange places crammed 

With observation, the which he vents 

In mangled form. 

As You Like It. 

4, He is complete in feature and in mind, 
"With all good grace, to grace a gentleman. 

Two Gentlemen of Veroni. 



5, He talks like the vulgar sort of market men, 
That come to gather money for their corn. 

Henry VL 
3 



4)0 WHAT 18 THE CHARACTER 

6, Gentle, but unfortunate, 
Dishonestly afflicted, but yet honest. 

Cymbeline. 

7. His nature is too noble for the world : 

He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, 

Or Jove, for his power to thunder ; his heart's hia 

mouth ; 
What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent. 

Coriolanus. 



8. He woos both high and low, both rich and poor, 
both young and old. 

Merry Wives of Windsor, 

9, A man whose blood 

Is very snow broth ; and one who never feels 
The wanton stings and 'motions of the sense, 
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge 
With profits of the mind, study, and fact. 

Measure for Measure. 

10. The noblest mind he carries 
That ever governed man. 

Timon of Athens. 

11. A discontented gentleman, 

Whose humble means match not his haughty mind. 

Richard III 



12. a knight well spoken, neat, and fine, 

But were I you, he never should be mine. 

Tuo Gentlemen of Verona. 



OF HIM YOU LOVE ? 51 

13. Given to taverns, and sack, and wine, and metheg- 
lins, and to drinkings, and swearings, and starings, 
pribbles and prabbles. 

Merry Wives of Windsor* 



14. An adventurous spirit ; 

He would o'erwalk a current, roaring loud, 
On the unsteadfast footing of a spear. 

Henry IV* 



15. He has a lean and hungry look ; 

He thinks too much ; such men are dangerous. 
Would he were fatter 1 

Julius Ccesar, 



16. Upon his brow shame is ashamed to sit ; 

For 'tis a throne where honor may be crowned 
Sole monarch of the universal earth. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



17. An obstinate heretic in despite of beauty. 

Much Ado about JYothing, 



18. In faith he is a worthy gentleman ; 
Exceedingly well read, and profited 
In strange concealments ; valiant as a lion, 
And wondrous affable ; and as bountiful 
As mines of India. 

Henry IV, 



52 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER 

19. There's something in his soul, 

O'er which his melancholy sits on brood. 

Hamlet. 



20. He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat : 
It ever changes with the next block. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

21. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles ; 
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate ; 
His tears pure messengers from his heart ; 

His heart as far from fraud, as Heaven from Earth. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



22. He makes a July's day short as December. 

Winter's Tale. 



23. a reverend father 

Whose beard the silver hand of peace hath touched ; 
Whose learning and good letters peace hath tutored ; 
Whose white investments figure innocence ; 
The dove, and very blessed spirit of peace. 

Henry IV. 

24. He writes brave verses, speaks brave words, 
Swears brave oaths, and breaks them bravely. 

As You Like It. 

25. He is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, 
slow as the elephant ; a man into whom nature has 
bo crowded humors, that his valor is crushed into 



OF HIM YOU LOVE? 53 

folly ; his folly is sauced with discretion ; there is no 
man hath a virtue that he hath not a glimpse of 
it ; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some 
siain of it. 

Troilus and Cressida. 

28. A very valiant man ; he hath an excellent stomach. 
Much Ado about Nothing. 

27. A most incomparable man ; breathed, as it were, 
To an untirable and continuate goodness. 

Timon of Athens. 

28. He's a justice of peace. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

29. He is full of the milk of human kindness. 

Macbeth. 

30. His life is gentle ; and the elements 

So mixed in him, that nature might stand up 
And say to all the world, this is a man. 

Julius Ccesar. 

31. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. 

Hamlet. 

32. From the crown of his head to the sole of his foot 
he is all mirth ; he has a heart as sound as a bell, 
and his tongue is the clapper ; for what his heart 
thinks his tongue speaks. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



54 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER 

33. The unruly waywardness, that infirm and choleric 
years bring with them. 

King Lear. 

34. As just a man, 

As e'er my conversation coped withal. 

Hamlet. 



35. He has a tear for pity and a hand, 
Open as day for melting charity ; 

Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint ; 
As humorous as winter, and as sudden 
As flaws congealed in the spring day. 

Henry IV. 

36. He will give good words to thee, and will flatter 
Beneath abhorring. 

Coriolanus. 



37. He is too costly for every day ; 

You would want another for working days. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

38. He reads much ; 

He is a great observer, and he looks 

Quite through the deeds of men : he loves no plays, 

He hears no music ; 

Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort, 

As if he mocked himself, and scorned his spirit 

That could be moved to smile at anything. 

Julius Ccesar. 



OF HIM YOU LOVE 



55 



39. I never heard of such a drawling, affecting rogue. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

40. He is of noble strain, approved valour, and con- 
firmed honesty. 

Much Ado about JVothmg. 



41, One that for his love dares yet do more, 

Than you have heard him brag to you he will. 

Twelfth Night. 



42. The gentleman is learned, and a most rare speaker, 

To nature none more bound ; his training such, 

That he may furnish and instruct great teachers, 

And never seek for aid out of himself. 

Henry IV. 

43. Truly an honest gentleman. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



44, -a poor player, 

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. 

Macbeth. 



45. A soldier 

Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard, 

Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, 

Seeking the bubble reputation 

Even at the cannon's mouth. 

As You Like It, 



46. He will maintain you like a gentlewoman. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



56 WHAT IS THE CHARACTER, ETC. 

47. A man that fortune's buffets and rewards 
Hast ta'en with equal thanks. 

Hamlet. 

48. A son who is the theme of honor's tongue ; 
Amongst a grove, the very straightest plant ; 
Who is sweet fortune's minion and her pride. 

Henry IV. 

49. A gentleman who loves to hear himself talk, and 
will speak more in a minute, than he will stand tc 
in a month. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

50. Thou'gh from an humble stock, undoubtedly 
Was fashioned to much honor. From his cradle 
He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one ; 
Exceeding wise, fair spoken and persuading ; 
Lofty and sour to them that love him not ; 

But to those that seek him, sweet as summer. 
And though he be unsatisfied in getting 
("Which is a sin), yet in bestowing, madam, 
He is most princely. 

H %ry VIII. 



QUESTION VI. 



EStfoTt, cr BSfrete, fotll fiou Just iHwt? 



'0, mistress mine, where are you roaming? 
0, stay and hear ; your true love 's coming, 

That can sing both high and low: 
Trip no further, pretty sweeting, 
Tourneys end in lovers meeting, 
Every wise man's son doth know." 

Twelfth Nignt. 

"Trip away; 
Make no stay , 
Meet me all, by break of day." 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



WHEN, OE WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET? 



1. In the pleached bower ; 
Where honey-suckles, ripened by the sun, 
Forbid the sun to enter. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

2, Even when the eastern gate, all fiery red, 
Opening on Neptune with fair blessed beams, 
Turns into yellow gold, his salt-green streams. 

Midsummer Nighfs Dream. 



3. 'Mid summer fields and fruitful vines. 

Richard III 



4, In an unweeded garden, 

That grows to seed. 

Hamlet 



5. To-morrow night, when Phoebe doth behold 
Her silvery visage in the watery glass, 
Decking wi'.h liquid pearl, the bladed grass. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



1)0 WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET' 

6, on the dreadful summit of a cliff. 



Hamlet. 



Beneath mossed trees, 

That have outlived the eagle. 

Timon of Athena. 



8. underneath the grove of sycamore, 

an hour before the worshipped sun 

Pours forth the golden window of the east. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

2 t On an evening so stilled, 

As hushed on purpose to grace harmony. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

10. Where the 

Brook makes sweet music with the enamelled stones, 
Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge. 
He overtaketh in his pilgrimage. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



11. Upon a barren mountain, in still winter ; 

In storm perpetual. 

Winter's Tale. 



12. Merrily, merrily, you'll meet, I trow, 

Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. 

Tempest. 



13, When the unfolding star calls up the shepherd. 

Measure for Measure. 



WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET 2 61 

14. When daisies pied, and violets blue, 

And lady-smocks all silver-white, 
And cuckoo buds of yellow hue, 

Do paint the meadows with delight ; 
When cuckoos sing on every tree, 
Cuckoo ! — 

Love's Labor Lost. 

15. That time when screech-owls cry, and barn-dogs howl, 
And spirits walk, and ghosts break up their graves. 

Henry VI. 

16. When crickets sing, and man's o'erlabored sense 
Repairs itself by rest. 

Cymbeline. 

17. When day begins to break, and night is fled, 
Whose pitchy mantle overveiled the earth. 

Henry VI. 



18. At a sheep-shearing. 

Winter's Tale. 



19. When every thing doth make a gleeful boast ; 
When birds chant melody on every bush ; 
When snakes lie rolled in the cheerful sun; 
When green leaves quiver with the cooling wind, 
And make a chequered shadow on the ground. 

Titus Andronicus. 



20. Midst wind, rain, aud thunder. 

Pericles. 



62 WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET? 

21. Under the shade of melancholy boughs. 

As You Like It. 



22. In some remote and desert place. 

Winter's Tale. 



23. When dying clouds contend with growing light ; 
What time the shepherd, blowing of his nails, 
Can neither call it perfect day or night. 

Henry VI. 

24. Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out 
Upon the brook that brawls along the wood. 

As You Like It. 



25. In the chapel. 

Hamlet. 



}, When grey-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, 
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light ; 
And flecked darkness, like a drunkard, reels 
From forth the pathway, made by Titan's wheels. 
Romeo and Juliet. 



27. By the parlor fire. 

Taming the Shrew. 

28. When the moon shines bright 

And the sweet wind does gently kiss the trees. 

Merchant of Venice. 



WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET? 63 

When o'er the one-half world 
Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse 
The curtained sleep ; when witchcraft celebrates 
Pale Hecate's offerings ; and withered murder 
Alarumed by his sentinel the wolf, 

towards his design 

Moves like a ghost. 

Macbeth. 

When the sun sets, and air doth drizzle dew. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



31, Where there's a willow grows aslant the brook, 
That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. 

Hamlet 



32. Beside a bank whereon the wild thyme blows, 
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows : 
Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, 
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

33. In the morn and liquid dew of youth. 

Hamlet. 



34. When the morn is bright and grey, 

When fields are fragrant, and the woods are green. 
Titus Andronicus. 



35, In a sheep-cote fenced about with olive trees. 

As You Like It. 



64 WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET? 

36. When morning opes her golden gates, 
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. 

Henry VI. 

37. On turfy mountain, where live nibbling sheep. 

Tempest. 

38. Within 

A barren, detested vale 



The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, 
O'ercome with moss, and baleful misletoe : 
Where never shines the sun, where nothing breeds, 
Unless the nightly owl, or fatal raven. 

Titus Andronicus. 

39. Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about 
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

40. In the happy hollow of a tree. 

King Lear 

41. in grove or green, 

By fountain clear, or sparkling starlight sheen. 

Midsummer JYighVs Dream. 

42. Upon a high and pleasant bill. 

Timon of Athens. 

43. When the blessed moon 

Doth tip with silver all the fruit tree-tops. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



WHEN, OR WHERE, WILL YOU FIRST MEET? 65 

44. Even where merchants most do congregate. 

Merchant of Venice. 

45. When 

The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth. 
Troilus and Cressida. 



46. in the wood, a league without the town. 

Midsummer NishVs Bream. 



47. 'Mong sweet beds of flowers 

Love thoughts lie rich, when canopied with bowers. 

Twelfth Night. 

48. iii the wood 

Where bloom faint primrose beds. 

Midsummer Night's Bream. 

49. When 

Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day- 
Stands tip- toe on the misty mountain-tops. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

50. When icicles hang by the wall, 

And Dick the shepherd blows his nail, 
And Tom bears logs into the hall, 

And milk comes frozen home in pail. 
When blood is nipped, and ways be foul, 
When nightly sings the staring owl, 

To-who ; 
To-whit, to-who, a merry note, 
While greasv Joan doth keel the pot. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



QUESTION VII 



SEjjat bill r|* ©it* sou Hobz it J&omjj fo&m gnu first mwt ? 



" Give me a gracious message." 

Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Scene V. 

" like a rat without a tail, 

I'll do, I'll do, I'll do." 

Macbeth. Act I. Scene III. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE BE DOING WHEN 
YOTJ FIKST MEET] 



1, Lady. — Keeping house, washing, wringing, brew- 
ing, baking, scouring, dressing meat and drink, and 
making beds. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

1, Gent. — He-11 be drunk, but drunk with those that 
have the fear of God, and not with drunken knaves. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

2. Going to Church. 

Twelfth JYight. 



3, Tearing the cave where echo lies, 
With repetition of the loved one's name. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

4. Lady. veiled, she'll be walking, 

Watering her chamber round 

With eye-offending brine. 

Twelfth JVight. 



70 . WHAT WILL THE OOT TOtJ LOVBJ 

4. Gent. — Making an ale-house of my lady's house 
and squeaking out his cooler's snatches without any 
mitigation or remorse of voice. 

Twelfth Night* 

5* Blubbering and weeping ; weeping and blubbering. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



6. Squeaking and gibbering in the city streets. 

Hamlet. 

7. Lady. — Preparing the dinner. 

King Lear. 

7, Gent. like a puffed and reckless libertine, 

He'll be the primrose hill of dalliance treading. 
Recking not his own read. 

Hamlet. 



8. Tearing your letter into a thousand half-pence. 

Much Ado about JVbthing. 

g # with baked meats 

Coldly furnishing forth the marriage tables. 

Hamlet. 

10. Lady. with chestnuts in her lap, 

She'll mounch and mounch and mounch. 

Macbeth. 



BE DOING WHEN YOtf FIRST MEET? 11 

10. Gent. — Killing swine. 

Macbeth. 



11, Fetching in fuel. 

Tempest. 



12. Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. 

As You Like It. 

13. Bellowing like bulls, or rather lions. 

Tempest. 

14. -Lady.— Stealing into the covert of the wood. 

Romeo and Juliet, 



14. Gent. — Seeking the bubble reputation, 
Even at the cannon's mouth. 

As You Like It. 



15. Going to a feast to read and domineer, 
Be mad and merry. 

Taming the Shrew. 

16. Inquiring thy lodging out. 

Merchant of Venice. 



17. Creeping like a snail 

Unwillingly to school. 



As You Like It, 



72 WHAT WILL THE ON 1 *: YOU LOVE 

18. Lady. — Spending her prodigal wits in bootless rhyme. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



18. Gent. — Carousing with 

Potations pottle deep. 

Othello. 



19, Eating the swimming frog, the toad, the tadpole. 

King Lear. 



20. Drowning cats and blind puppies. 

Othello. 



21. Sleeping to engross the idle body, 

Instead of praying to enrich the soul. 

Richard III. 



22. Lady. sitting on a bank 

Weeping. 

Tempest. 



22. Gent. — Capering nimbly in a lady's chamber. 

Richard III. 

23. Calling for dates and quinces. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



24. Eating a crocodile. 

Hamlet. 



BE DOING WHEN YOU FIRST MEET ? 73 

25. Lady. — Eating her dinner. 

Tempest. 

25. Gent. Enforcing 

A thievish living on the common road. 

As You Like It. 

26. Lending out money. 

Merchant of Venice. 

27. Lady. — Shell be with two right reverend 'fathers, 
Divinely bent on meditation. 

Richard III. 

27. Gent. — Herding with swine and rogues forlorn. 
In short and musty straw. 

King Lear. 

28. Catterwauling. 

Twelfth JVight. 

29. Lady. — Sitting upon the church bench. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



29. Gent. — Swearing horribly. 

Twelfth JVight. 



30. Lady. — Buying three pounds of sugar, five pounds 
of currants, four pounds of prunes, and as many of 
raisins. 

Winter '» Tale. 
•1 



74 WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE 

30. Gent. — The fool slides o'er the ice. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



31, Running after a gilded butterfly. 

Coriolanus. 



32. Lady. — Ransacking 

A pedlar's pack. 



Winter's Tale. 



32. Gent. — Smoking. 

Coriolanus. 



33. Killing flies. 

Coriolanus. 



34. Lady. — Madly playing with her forefathers' bones. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



34. Gent. — Walking in thievish ways. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



35. Sleeping within an orchard. 

Hamlet. 



36. Living upon the vapor of a dungeon. 

' fheli 



BE D0ES T O WHEN YOU FIRST MEET ? 75 

37. Lady. — The poor soul will sit sighing by a sycamore 
tree, 
Singing all a green willow ; 
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, 
Singing willow, willow, willow. 

Othello. 



37. Gent. — Lying in swinish sleep. 

Macbeth. 



\, Sitting by the fire. 

Coriolanus. 



39. Shaking down mellow fruit. 

Coriolanus. 



40. Lady. — Playing the idle huswife. 

Coriolanus. 



40. Gent. — Washing his nose, which bled. 

Coriolanus. 



41. Going to be married. 

King John. 

42. Lady. — Sighing like a furnace. 

As You Like It. 

42. Gent. — Winding up the watch of his wit. 

Tempest. 



76 WHAT WILL THE OXE YOU LOVE 

43. Disturbed by 

The sad companion, dull-eyed melancholy. 

Pericles. 



44. Riding your horse. 

Twelfth JYight. 



45. Lady. — Licking her fingers. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



45. Gent. — Mocking his charge with snores. 

Macbeth. 



46. Growing fat with feasting. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

47. Being entertained by a perfumer. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



48. Going to the play. 

Hamlet. 



49. Doing such things, — 

What they are I know not, but yet they are 

The terrors of the earth. 

King Lear. 



50, Lady. — Playing the housewife for this once. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



50. 



BE DOING WHEN YOU FIRST MEET 



17 



Gent.— Beating the surges under him, 

And riding upon their backs ; treading the water, 

Whose enmity he flings aside, and breasting 

The surge most swola that meets him ; his bold head 

'Bove the contentious waves keeping, and oaring 

Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke 

To the shore. 

Tempest 



QUESTION VIII. 



©&fiat hill ifi* ©tu sou lobt sa^ to sou' 



" Wliat said he ?" 

" Speak, I am bound to hear. 



"List, list, list!" 

Hamlet. Act I. Scene V. and Act II. Scene I. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOTJ LOVE SAY TO YOU 1 



1. Lady.—Do&t thou love me ? I know thou wilt say ay ; 
And I will take thee at thy word. 
If thou dost love pronounce it faithfully. 

Romeo and Juliet 



Gent,— -If I profane with my unworthy hand 
This holy shrine, the gentle fine be this, 
My lips two blushing pilgrims ready stand 
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



o I will have thee ; but by this light I take thee 

' from pity. I would not deny you ; but by this good 

day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to 

save your life. 

Much Ado about JVothmg. 



I love thee not, therefore pursue me not. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



62 WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU ? 

4. let me kiss thy hand. 

King Lear. 

5. Lady. — Lord ! I would not endure a husband with a 

beard on his face. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

5. Gent. — Excellent wench ! Perdition catch my soul, 
But I do love thee ! and when I love thee not 
Chaos is come again. 

Othello. 



6. I do beseech you 

What is your name? 

Tempest. 



7, Lady. — I am your wife if you will marry me. 

Tempest. 

7. Gent. — I will kiss your hand and so leave you. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

8. I must hear from you every day i- the hour, 
For in a moment there are many days. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



9, Doubt that the stars are fire. 

Doubt that the sun doth move, 
Doubt truth to be a liar, 
But never doubt I love. 

Hamlet. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU? 83 

10. Lady.— Where dwell you, pretty youth ? 

As You Like It. 

10. Gent.— I pray you do not fall in love with me ? 
For I am falser than vows made in wine. 

As You Like It. 

11. From all such Devils good Lord deliver me ! 

Taming the Shrew. 

12. Lady.—V\\ not wed,— I cannot love, 

I am too young, I pray you pardon me. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

12. Gent.— Only give me leave. 
Unworthy as I am, to follow you. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



13, Lady.— To-night we hold a solemn supper, sir, 
And I'll request your presence. 

Macbeth. 



13. Gent. — I am drunk. 

Othello. 



14, Hear my soul speak ; 

The very instant that I saw you, did 

My heart fly to your service. 
J J Tempest. 



84 WHAT WILL THE 0XE YOU LOTE SAY TO YOU ? 

15. Will you sup with me to-night ? 

Julius C&sar. 

16. Lady. — Pray you stand further from me. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

16. Gent. — I am maimed, madam. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

17. Lady. — Sweet youth, I pray you chide a year 

together ; 
I'd rather hear you chide, than others woo. 

As You Like It. 

17. Gent. — Your father has consented 

That you shall be my wife ; your dowry's 'greed on ; 
And, will you, nill you. I will marry you. 

Taming the Shrew. 

18. Out of my sight, and never see me more ! 

King John. 



19, Lady. — Peace, fool. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



19. Gent. — Sweet, above thought I love thee. 

Troilus and Cressida. 

20. 1 would you were my bird, 

Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU ? 85 

21. My poverty, and not my will, consents. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



22. Lady. — If that thy bent of love be honorable, 

Thy purpose marriage ; send me word to-morrow 

By one I will procure to send to thee, 

Where, and what time thou wilt perform the rite 

And all my fortunes at thy feet I'll lay, 

And follow you, my lord, throughout the world. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



22. Gent. — Reason becomes the master of my will, 
And leads me to your eyes ; where I o'erlook 
Love's stories written in love's richest book. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

23. Farewell, dear heart, since I must needs be gone. 

Twelfth JYight. 

24. I have loved you night and day, 
For many weary months. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



25. Lady. — Come, you promised me a tawdry lace, and 
pair of sweet gloves. 

Winters Tale. 



25 Gent. — Avaunt thou witch. 

Comedy of Errors. 



J6 WHAT WILL THE 0XE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU i 

26. Give me some music. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

27. Lady. — Hence 
Horrible villain ! or I'll spurn thine eyes 
Like balls before me ; I'll unhair thy head : 

Thou shalt be whipped with wire, and served in brine ; 
Smarting in lingering pickle. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

27. Gent. — I will be married to a wealthy widow, 
Ere three days pass. 

Taming the Shrew. 

28. Why you're a devil, a devil, a very fiend. 

Taming the Shrew. 

29. We must talk in secret. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

30. I do not flatter thee, 

But honor thee, and will do till I die. 

Titus Andronicus. 

31. Lady. — Sir, you and I must part. \ 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

31. Gent. — I was won 

"With thy first glance. 

Troilux and Cressida. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU ? 87 

32. Thou art thyself, mine own self's better part ; 
Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart ; 
My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, 
My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim. 

Comedy of Errors. 

33. Lady.— I'll have no husband if you be not he. 

As You Like It. 

33. Gent.— I'll ne'er wed woman if you be not she. 

As You Like It. 



34. I will not bite you. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



35. Tel1 me > 

How stands your disposition to be married. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

36. Lady.—O cut my lace, lest my heart cracking it, 

Break too. 

Winter's Tale. 



36. Gent.— Let me embrace thee. 

Troihis and Cressida. 



37 You are no surer, no, 

Than is the coal of fire upon the ice, 

Or hailstones in the sun. 

Comolanus. 



88 WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU ? 

38. Lady. — Bless me from marrying a usurer. 

Winters Tale. 

38. Gent. — You have bereft me of all words, lady. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



39. Think not I love you. 

As You Like It. 



40. I will confess to you that I love you. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



41. Lady. — Though I loved you well. 1 wooed you not ; 
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man ; 
Or that we women had men'.s privilege 
Of speaking first. 

Tr oil Us and Cressida. 



41. Gent. — let me kiss 

This princess of pure white, this seal of bliss. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

42. Lady. — For you, 

I would be trebled twenty times myself, 
A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times more 
rich. 

Merchant of Venice. 

42. Gent. — Give me your hand and say you will be 
mine. 

Measure for Measure. 



WHAT WILL THE ONE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU ? 89 

43, Lady. — Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe 
that I love thee. 

As You Like It. 



43. Gent.— Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadow'd livery of the burnished sun, 
To whom I am a neighbor, and near bred. 
I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine 
Hath feared the valiant ; by my love, I swear, 
The best-regarded virgins of our clime 
Have lov'd it too : I would not change this hue, 
Except to steal your thoughts my gentle queen. 

Merchant of Venice. 



44. Lady.— would 

That Heaven had made me such a man. 

Othello. 



44, Gent. Poor soul, thy face is much abused with tears. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



45. 1 never loved \ou much. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



46. Lady.— There's no trust, 

No faith, no honesty in men ; all perjured, 
All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



90 WHAT WILL THE OXE YOU LOVE SAY TO YOU? 

46. Gent. — Full many a lady, 

I have eyed with best regard ; and many a time 
The harmony of their tongues hath into bondage 
Brought my too diligent ear ; for several virtues 
Have I lik'd several women ; never any 
With so full soul, but some defect in her 
Did quarrel with the noblest grace she ow'd, 
And put it to foil. But you, you, 
So perfect and so peerless, are created 
Of every creature's best. 

Tempest. 



47. Lady. — Hang all the husbands. 

Winter's Tale. 



47. Gent. — Look how this ring encompasseth thy finger, 
Even so thy breast encloseth this poor heart ; 
Wear both of them, for both are thine. 

Richard III. 



48. Lady. — I will deny thee nothing. 

Othello. 



49. I do desire we may be better strangers. 

As You Like It. 

50. Lady. — I had as lief be wooed of a snail as you, 
ay, of a snail ; for though he comes slowly, he 
carries his house on his head ; a better jointure I 
think than you can make a woman. 

As You Like It. 



WHAT WILL THE 0XE YOl LOVE SAY TO YOU? 91 



50i Gent.— Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, 
Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauties sounded, 
Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife. 

Taming the Shrew. 



QUESTION IX. 



jat must gou to to Wiin t&* Qbnt gou HLofa? 



" What should we do P " 

Hamlet. 

" What wilt thou do ? * * * 
* ****** 

Zounds ! show me, what thou 'It do." 

Hamlet. 

" Too light winning 
Makes the prize light." 

Tempest. 

An honest tale speeds best, being plainly told." 

Richard HI. 



WHAT MUST YOTJ DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE? 



Neither a borrower, nor a lender be : 
For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; 
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. 
This, above all : to thine own self be true. 

Hamlet. 



2. Cease your flow of riot. 

Timon of Athens. 



3 # violent delights ha^e violent ends, 

And in their triumph die ; like fire and powder 

Which, as they kiss, consume : 

Therefore, love moderately ; long love doth so ; 
Too swift, arrives as tardy as too slow. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

4. Lady. — Wring him by the nose. 

Henry VI. 

4, Gent, — Attain a beard. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



96 WHAT XITST TOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE ? 

5. be constant as the northern star, 

Of whose true-fixed, and resting quality, 
There is no fellow in the firmament. 

Julius Ccesar. 

6. Tell truth, and shame the devil. 

Henry IV. 

7. play one scene 

Of excellent dissembling ; and let it look 
Like perfect honor. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



8. If thou dost love, pronounce it faithfully. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



9, Walk softly, look sweetly, and say — nothing. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

10. Follow y 

"With no less confidence 
Than boys pursuing summer butterflies. 

Coriolanus 



11, Lady. persevere, counterfeit sad looks ; 

Make mouths upon him, when he turns his back. 

.Midsummer Wight's Dream. 

11, Gent. steal the impression of h;r fantasy 

With biacelytr- of thy hair, rings, . . ,-. :.:.nceits ; 



WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE ? 97 



Knacks, trifles, nosegays, sweetmeat- : messengers 
Of strong prevailment in unhardened youth. 

Midsummer Night's Drenm 

12. Do not drink. 

Hamlet. 



13. A round, unvarnished tale deliver 

Of your whole course of love. 

Othello. 



14. Look you lisp, and wear strange suits. 

As You Like It. 



15. Wash your face, and keep your teeth clean. 

Coriolanus. 



16. Do penance 

"With bitter fasts, with penitential groans, 
With nightly tears, and daily heart-sore sighs. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



17. Lady. — Take your sweetheart's hat and pluck it 
o'er your brow-. 

Winter's Tale. 



17. Gent. — Sigh like a furnace, with a woful ballad 
made to your mistress' eyes. 

As You Li 
5 



98 WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE? 

18. Deck your body in gay ornaments. 

Henry VI. 

19. Put money in thy purse. 

Othello. 

20. Ask not advice of any other thought 
But faithfulness and courage. 

Pericles. 

21. Lady. — Be all made of sighs and tears, 
All adoration, duty, and observance. 

As You Like It. 

21. Gent. — You must amend your drunkenness. 

Twelfth JViglit. 

22. be as patient as a gentle stream, 

And make a pastime of each weary step, 

Till the last step have brought you to your love j 
And then you'll rest, as, after much turmoil, 
A blessed soul doth in Elysium. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

23. Put on the pale complexion of true love, 
Or the red glow of scorn and proud disdain. 

As You Like It. 



24. Lady. — Drop tears, as fast as the Arabian trees 
Their medicinal gum. 

Othello. 



WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE? W 

24. Gent. — Teach yourself that honorable stop, 
Not to outsport discretion. 

Othello. 

25. Lose all mirth, forego all custom of exercise. 

Hamlet. 

26. Mend your speech a little, 
Lest it may mar your fortunes. 

King Lear. 

27. Lady. — Get your apparel together ; good strings 
to your beads, new ribbons to your pumps. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

27. Gent. — In her bosom unclasp thy heart, 
And take her hearing prisoner with the force 
And strong encounter of thy amorous tale. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

28. Wisely and slow ; they stumble that run fast. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



29. Use ceremonious vows of love, 
And ample interchange of sweet discourse. 

Richard III. 

30. Lady. — Mingle tears with smiles. 

Coriolanus. 



J 00 WHAT MUST FOU DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE? 

30. Gent. — Forswear, thin, potations, and addict 
yourself to sack. 

Henry IV. 

31. sacrifice your tears, your sighs, your heart ; 

Write till your ink be dry ; and with your tears 
Moist it again ; and frame some feeling line 
That may discover your integrity. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

32. Let your tongue unload your heart's great burden. 

Henry VI. 



33. Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar. 

Hamlet. 



34. Write loyal cantos of contemned love, 

And sing them loud even in the dead of night ; 
Holla your name to the reverberate hills. 
And make the babbling gossip of the air 
Cry it out. 

Twelfth Night. 

35. Seem despiteful and ungentle. 

As : 



Timon of Athens. 



Speak low. if you speak love, 

.Much Ado about Nothing. 



WHAT MUST YOU DO TO WIN THE ONE YOU LOVE? 161 



38. Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper. 
Sprinkle cool patience. 



Hamlet. 



be better at thy leisure, 



And be patient. 

King Lear. 



40. Lady. — Consume away in sighs. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



40. Gent. — Keep a farm and carters. 

Hamlet. 



41. Be too wise to woo peaceably. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

42. Jig off a tune at the tongue : s end, canary to it 
with your feet, humor it with turning up your eye- 
lids ; sigh a note, and sing a note ; sometimes 
through the throat, as if you swallowed love with 
singing love ; sometimes through the nose, as if 
you snuffed up love by smelling love. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



43. Lady. — Look sweet, speak fair. 

Comedy of Errors. 



43 Gent. — Play the fool nowhere but in your own house. 

Hamlet. 



102 -WHAT MUST VOU DO TO WIN THE OXE YOU LOVE"? 

44, Lady. — Hold a solemn supper, 

And request his presence. 

Macbeth 



44, Gent. — Unfold the passion of thy love, 
Surprise her with discourse of thy dear faith. 

It becomes you well to act thy woes ; 

She will attend it. 

Twelfth Night. 

45- Lady. — Laugh him out of patience ; 

laugh him into patience. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 

45. Gent. — Sleek o'er your rugged looks ; 
Be bright and jovial. 

Macbeth. 



46. Do nothing but eat and make good cheer, 
And praise heaven for the merry year. 

Henry IV. 

47. Lady. — Sit alone 

And to the nightingale's complaining notes 
Tune your distresses and record your woes. 

Twelfth JYight. 

47. Gent.— "Woo her with spirit 

Say that she rail ; why, then, tell her plainly, 
She siags as sweetly as a nightingale ; — 
Say she be mute, and will not speak a word : 



"WTLAT MUST YOU DO TO WTN* THE ONE YOU LOVE? 103 

Why, then, commend her volubility ; 

If she deny to wed, why crave the day 

When you shall ask the banns, and when be married. 

Taming the Shreiv. 

48. Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose 
That you have resolved to effect. 

Tempest. 

49. Lady. — Get your jewels and your wealth to- 
gether. 

As You Like It. 



49. Gent. — Settle and bend up 

Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. 

Macbeth. 



50. Lady. — Spend liquid tears, or heart-offending 
groans, 

Or blood-consuming sighs 

be blind with weeping, sick with groans, 

Look pale as primrose. 

Henry IV. 

50. Gent. — Win her with gifts, if she respect not words ; 
Dumb jewels often in their silent kind, 
More than quick words do move a woman's mind. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



QUESTION X 



QSttH iou S6tc 5* l&arrM? 



' Wedding is great Juno's crown ; 

A blessed bond of board and bed ! 
'Tis Hymen peoples every town ; 

High wedlock, then, be honored : 
Honor, high renown and honor, 
To Hymen, god of every town." 

As You Like It. 



" Kneel and pray 
For happy wedlock hours." 

Merchant of Venice. 



WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED? 



1. Lady. — It were all one 

That you should love a bright particular star, 
And think to wed it, he is so above thee. 

AlVs Well that Ends Well. 

1. Gent.— She is a woman, therefore, may be wooed ; 
She is a woman, therefore, may be won. 

Titus Andronicus. 



2, Your nuptial hour 

Draws on apace ; four happy days bring in 

Another moon. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



3, Lady. — By my troth, you will never get thee a 
husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

3, Gent. — You shall live a bachelor. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



108 WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED ? 

4. The bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, 
Will prove a beauteous flower. 

Romeo and Juliet 



5. But screw your courage to the sticking place, 
And you'll not fail. 

Macbeth. 



6. Lady. — I think if your husband were dead, you 
would marry. 

Merry Wives of Windsor, 



6. Gent. — The bride is ready to go to church. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

7. You are betrothed ; 
Nay, more : your marriage hour, 

With all the cunning manner of your flight, 
Determined of. how you must climb from window, 
The ladder made of cords ; and all the means 
Plotted and 'greed on for your happiness. 

Two Gentlmen of Verona 

8. Thou, perhaps, mayst move 

The heart that now abhors, to like thy love. 

Twelfth JVight. 

9. Lady. — I hope there will come a time, for I never 
knew a woman so dote upon a man. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED? 109 

9. Gent. — None but you shall have her, 

Though twenty thousand worthier come to crave 
her. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



10. If money were as certain as your waiting, 
'Twere sure enough. 

Timon of Athens. 



11. This couple shall eternally he knit. 

Midsummer Night's Bream. 

12. You shall have your will ; 

Yet hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 

Henry VI. 

13. Lady. — You may sit in the corner and cry, Heigh 

ho ! for a husband. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



13. Gent. — Seeing you shall love her, and loving woo, 
and wooing, she shall grant. 

As You Like It. 



14. Ask my dog : if he say, ay, you will ; if he say no, 
you will ; if he shake his tail and say nothing, you 
will. 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



15. I should condemn it, as an improbable fiction. 

Twelfth. . 



110 



WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED 1 



16. Lady. — Get thee to a nunnery. 

Hamlet. 



16. Gent. — Marry her, with my best endeavors. 

Winter' 's Tale. 

17. Your suit is desperate,. undertake no more. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



18. Lady. — I hope your virtues 
Will bring him. 



Hamlet. 



18. Gent. — She does receive your offered love, like love, 
And will not wrong it. 

Hamlet. 



19. You will marry at your request, yet if there be no 
great love at the beginning, heaven will decrease it 
upon better acquaintance, when you are married and 
have more occasion to know one another. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

20. Indeed you shall not. 

Coriolantts. 



21, Lady- — T hope to see you one day fitted with a hus- 
band. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



WILL YOU EVER HE MARRIED ? 1 1 ] 

21. Gent. — She is yours for ever. 

Winters Tale. 

22. God, the best maker of all marriages, 
Combine your hearts in one, your realms in one ; 
As man and wife being two, are one in love. 

Henry V. 

23. There's some ill planet reigns : 

You must be patient till the heavens look 
With an aspect more favorable. 

Winter's Tale. 

24. You'll join forthwith in holy wedlock bands. 

Henry VI. 

25. Lady. — I hope he'll prove a widower shortly, 
Till then, wear the willow garland for his sake. 

Henry VI. 

25. Gent. — Jack shall have Jill ; 
Naught shall go ill. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 

26. Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. 

As You Like It. 

27. Yes — underneath the consecrated roof, 
You'll plight the full assurance of your faith. 

Twelfth JYi.jht. 



112 WILL YOO EVER BE MARRIED? 

28. Lady. — You will endure the livery of a nun, 
Grow. live, and die in single blessedness. 

Midsummer JVightfs Dream. 

28. Gent. — God will match you with a good dancer. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

29. Hymen will your hands, 
Unite commutual, in most sacred bands. 

Hamlet. 



30. Like a fair edifice built upon another man's ground, 
you will lose your house by mistaking the place 
where to erect it. 

Merry Wives of. Windsor. 



31. you will wed 

With pomp, with triumph, and with revelling. 

Midsummer JVight's Dream. 



32. Lady. — Choose thy husband, and I'll pay the dower. 
All's Well that Ends Well. 

S2. Gent. — Sir, the maid loves you, and all shall be well. 
Merry Wives of Windsor. 



33. The heavens will not have 
Your contract celebrated. 

Winter's Tale. 



WILL FOU EVER BK MARRIED? \\$ 



34. Prepare for marriage- 



And may your oaths, well kept and prosperous be. 

Henry V. 

35. The story of your loves discovered, 

a day of marriage shall be yours ; 

One feast, one house, one mutual happiness, 

Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

36. A solemn combination shall be made 
Of your dear souls. 

Twelfth JVight. 

37. Lady. — There stays a husband to make you a wife. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

37. Gent. — Bring you the maid, you shall not lack a 

priest. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

38. The stars I see, will kiss the valleys first. 

Winter's Tale. 

39. The catastrophe will be a nuptial. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



40. Lady. — Himself and what is his, to you and yours 
shall be converted. 

Merchant of Venice. 



114: WILL YOU EVER BE MARRIED ? 

40. Gent. — You unworthy are 

To woo so fair a dame to be your wife, 
And have no portion in her choice. 

Henry VI. 

41. Let your wedding be to-morrow. 

As You Like It. 

42. Not until seven half-penny loaves are sold for a 
penny, and the three-hooped pot shall have ten 
hoops. 

Henry VI. 

43. Lady. — Bait the hook well, the fish will bite. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

43. Gent. — Clap on more sails ; pursue, up with your 
fights, give fire, she is your prize. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 



44. You may not, verily. 

Winters Tale. 



45. 1 tope all will be well, we must be patient. 

Hamlet. 

46. You will be conjoined 

In the estate of honorable marriage. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



WILL YOU EVER BE MAllKIED ? H5 



47 I say we will have no more marriages. 

**<• -J Hamlet. 



48 Name the day of marriage and God give you joy. 
Much Ado about Nothing. 



49 The weak wanton Cupid, 

" Shall from your neck unloose his amorous folds, 

And like a dew-drop from a lion's mane 

Be shook to airy air. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



50. Put on your best array, bid your friends, for if you 
will be married to-morrow, you shall. 

As You Like It. 



QUESTION XI 



for MM fcafo iou a faxttaltts? 



Every man hath business and desire, 

Such as it is." 

Hamlet. 



Guide ray pleasures." 

King Lear. 



" To business that we love we rise betimes, 
And go to it with delight." 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



FOR, WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY? 



^ Music- 



As it comes o'er the ear like the sweet south, 
That breathes upon a bank of violets, 
Stealing and giving odor. 

Twelfth Night. 



-to sleep ; — 



No more. 

Hamlet. 



3, You had rather be at a breakfast of enemies, than a 
dinner of friends. 

Titnon of Athens. 



^ Apricots and dewberries. 

purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. 

Midsummer NighVs Dream. 



5, Nature is thy goddess, to her law 

Thv services are bound. 

King Lea 



120 FOR WHAT HAVE Voi \ PARTIALITY 5 

6, wholesome syrups, drugs, and holy prayers. 

Comedy of Errors. 



7. Cats and blind puppies. 

Othello 



8. To you 

The purest treasure mortal times afford, 
Is, spotless reputation. 

Richard II. 



9, Porridge after meat. 

Troilus and Cressida. 

10. Grandsires, babies, and old women. 

Henry V. 

11. plate of rare device, and jewels of rich and 

and exquisite form. 

Cymbeline. 

12. You would not lose your dog for twenty pounds. 

Taming the Shrew. 

13. You'll rhyme eight years together ; dinners, suppers, 

and sleeping hours excepted. 

As You Like It. 



14. Children's voices. 

Coriolanus. 



FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY ? 121 

15. some pigeons, a couple of short legged hens, a 

joint of mutton, or any pretty little tiny kickshaws. 

Henry IV. 



16. A gossip's frast. 

Comedy of Errors. 



17. You give to dust that is a little gilt, 
More laud than gilt o'er dusted. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



18. A pot of good double beer. 

Henry VI. 



19 Innocent sleep ; 

Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 
The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, 
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, 
Chief nourisher in life's feast. 

Macbeth. 



20. For love, for wealth, for pomp, you pine. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



21. Such stuff 

As dreams are made of. 

Tempest. 

22. Epicurean cooks, who 
Sharpen with cloyless sauce the appetite. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



122 F0R "WHAT HATE YOU A PARTIALITY ? 

23. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy 

Romeo and Juliet. 



24. The shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, 

You better brook than flourishing psopled towns. 
Two Gentlemen of Verona. 



25. A fellowship in a cry of players. 



26. prophecies and dreams, 

And such like toys as these. 



Hamlet. 



Richard III. 



27. Thy spirit, with divine ambition puffed, 
Makes mouths at the invisible event ; 
Exposing what is mortal and unsure, 
To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, 
Even for an egg-shell. 

Hamlet. 



28. Traffic *s thy god. 

Timon of Athens. 



29. the pert and nimble spirit of mirth ; 

You'd turn melancholy forth to funerals, 
The pale companion is not for your pomp. 

Jlfidsummer Night' a Bream. 



FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY? 123 



30. thou hadst rather, 

Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf, 

Than flatter him in a bower. 

Coriolanus. 



31, for haunting assemblies, 

Where youth, and cost, and witless bravery keep. 

Tempest. 

32. To eat, drink, and sleep. 

Jill's Well that Ends Well 

33 > Dreams ; 

Which are the children of an idle brain, 
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

34, A calf's head and a capon. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

35, Music ; — yet 

You are never merry, when you hear sweet music ; 

The reason is, your spirits are attentive : 

For do but note a wild and wanton herd, 

Or race of youthful and nnhandled colts. 

Fetching mad bounds, bellowing, and neighing loud, 

Which is the hot condition of their blood ; 

If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound, 

Or any air of music touch their ears, 

You shall perceive them make a mutual stand, 

Tbcir savage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze. 



124 F0R WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY? 



By the sweet power of musio : 

naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage, 

But music for the time doth change his nature : 

The man that hath no music in himself, 

Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, 

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; 

The motions of his spirit are as dull as night, 

And his affections dark as Erebus ; 

Let no such man be trusted. 

Merchant of Venice. 



36. A cup of sack. 

Henry IV. 



37. Thy glory is to subdue men. 

Love's Labor Lost. 



38. Report of fashions in proud Italy ; 

Whose manners still our tardy apish nation 
Limps after in base imitation. 



39. Your dinner. 



40. Porridge and fat beef. 



Richard II. 



Othello. 



Henry V. 



41. Thou hadst rather brook the loss of brittle life, 
Than those proud titles thou hast won. 

Henry IV. 



FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY? 



125 



42, a widow aunt, a dowager 

Of great revenue, and she hath no child. 

Midsummer JVight's Dream. 



43, Rats, and mice, and such small deer. 

King Lear. 



44. Tickling the senseless rushes with your heels. 

Borneo and Juliet. 



45. Wine and feeding, rather than priest-like fasts. 

Coriolanus. 



4(j t you are not covetous for gold ; 

But if it be a sin to covet honor, 
You are the most offending soul alive. 

Henry V. 



47. A cup of hot wine without a drop of allaying Tyber. 

Coriolanus. 



48. Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war. 

Othello. 



49. Gold ! yellow, glittering, precious gold. 

Timon of Athens. 



126 FOR WHAT HAVE YOU A PARTIALITY? 

50. Your horse, you would not change him for any 
that treads on four pasterns ; he trots the air ; earth 
sings when he touches it ; the basest horn of his 
hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes : he is 
pure air and fire ; and the dull elements of earth 
and water never appear in him. but only in patient 
stillness while the rider mounts him : he is indeed a 
horse. 

Henry V. 



QUESTION XII 



Mfat foill lou fabt Occasion to Jtar ? 



^ ary best safety lies in fear. 



Hamlet. 



i for thy good caution, thanks, 

Thou hast harped my fears aright." Macbeth. 



WHAT WILL YOTJ HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 



1. Ingratitude ! that marble-hearted fiend, 
More hideous, 



Than the sea monster. 



2.. The pangs of despised love. 



King Lear. 



Hamlet. 



3. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat. 

Hamlet. 



4, That sly devil ; 

That broker, that still breaks the pate of faith ; 
That daily break-vow ; he that wins of all, 
That smooth-faced gentleman, tickling commodity, 
Commodity the bias of the world. 

King John. 



5. The subtle blood of the grape. 

Timon of Athens. 
6* 



130 WHAT WILL You HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 

6. Open-eyed conspiracy, 
* * * * * 

If of life you keep a care, 
Shake off slumber and beware, 
Awake ! awake ! 

Tempest. 



7. a deed without a name. 

Macbeth. 



8. Smiling pick-thanks, and base news-mongers. 

Henry IV. 

9. I charge thee, fling away ambition ; 

By that sin fell the angels, how can man then, 
The image of his maker, hope to win by it ? 

Henry VIII. 



10. The cannibals that each other eat. 

Othello. 



11, Self-love : — tho' 'tis not so vile a sin, 
As self-neglecting. 

Henry V. 



12. A Bailiff. 

Winter 's Tale. 



13. The infinite flatteries that follow youth and opulency. 

Timon of Athens. 



WHA1 WELL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 131 

14. Thriftless ambition, that will raven up 
Thine own life's means. 

Macbeth. 



15. Scoffs and scorns, and contumelious taunts, 

In the open market place. 

Henry VI. 



16. Pride ; he that is proud eats up himself : pride is his 
own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle, and 
whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the 
deed in praise. 

Troilus and Cressida. 



17. Lean faced envy. 

Henry VI. 



18. Plutus, the god of gold. 

Timon of Athens. 



19. The being benetted round with villainies. 

Hamlet. 



20. Nightly revels and new jollity. 

Midsummer Night's Dream. 



21, The sin of covetousness. 

Twelfth Night. 



132 WHAT WHJL, YOU HATE OCCASION TO FEAR ? 

22. Idleness, which doth hatch — 
— ten thousand harms. 

Antony and Cleopatra. 



23. Lady. — A foolish suitor. 

Cymbeline. 



23. Gent. — The venom clamors of a jealous woman : 
Poison more deadly, than a mad dog's tooth. 

Comedy of Errors 



24. thieves ! thieves ! thieves ! 

Look to your house, your bags ! 

Thieves ! thieves ! 

Othello. 



25. The being assailed by robbers. 

Henry V 



26. The censures of the carping world. 

Richard III. 



27. Deceit, which dwells in gorgeous palaces. 

Romeo and Juliet. 



28. Quips and sentences, and these paper bullets of tin 
brain, shall awe you from the career of your humor. 
.Much Ado about JVbthitiz. 



WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 133 

29. Necessity's sharp pinch. 

King Lear. 



3Q i Beware of jealousy ; 

It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock 
The meat it feeds on. 

Othello. 



31. Sorrows, when they come, they come not single spies, 

But in battalions. 

Hamlet. 



32. Supernatural soliciting, 

Which shall unfix your hair, 

And make your seated heart knock at your ribs, 
Against the use of nature. 

Macbeth. 



33 1 moving accidents, by flood and field. 

Othello. 



34. The shrug, the hum, or ha ; these petty brands 
That calumny doth use, 



for calumny will sear 



Virtue itself. 

Winter's Tale. 



35, Heart's discontent, and sour afl&iction. 

Henry VI. 



134 WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAH ? 

36. Laud rats and water rats, water thieves and land 
thieves, I mean pirates. 

Merchant of Venice. 

37. doubts, which are traitors, 

And make us lose the good we oft might win, 
By fearing to attempt. 

Measure for Measure. 

38. The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, 
the law's delay, 

The insolence of office, and the spurns 
That patient merit of the unworthy takes. 

Hamlet. 

39. Wooing, wedding, and repenting. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

40. Dissolutions of ancient amities ; menaces and male- 
dictions, needless differences, banishment of friends, 
and I know not what. 

King Lear. 



41, The toothache. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



42. back wounding calumny, which 

The whitest virtue strikes : what king so strong, 
Can tie the gall up in a slanderous tongue. 

Measure for Measure. 



WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 135 

43 The smiles of knaves. 

Coriolanus. 



44. Slander ! 

Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue 

Oat-venoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath 

Rides on the fostering winds, and doth belie 

All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, 

Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave. 

This viperous slander enters. 

Cymbeline. 

45 Malice ! — a great and grievous sin. 

Henry VI. 



46, the rugged Russian bear, 

The armed rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger. 

Macbeth 



47. The envious slanders of false accusers. 

Richard III. 



48, Wine and wassel that do make 

memory the warder of the brain, 

a fume ; and the receipt of reason 

A limbeck only. 



Macbeth, 



49. Envious and calumniating time ; 
For beauty, wit, 

High birth, vigor of bone, desert in service, 
Love, friendship, charity, are subject all to ; t. 

Troilu* add Cressidu. 



136 WHAT WILL YOU HAVE OCCASION TO FEAR? 

50. This receive as certain : 

those you make your friends 

And give your heart to, when they once perceive 
The least rub in your fortunes, will fall away 
Like water from you, never found again 
But where they mean to sink you. 

Henry VIII. 



QUESTION XIII 



Wifat is four Mtstin^ ? 



" Thither he 
Will come to know his destiny." 



Macbeth. 



" Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, 
When our deep plots do fall : and that should teach us 
There's a divinity that shapes our ends, 
Rough hew them how we will." 

Hamlet. 



1. 



WHAT IS YOJR DESTINY I 



Earth's increase, and foison plenty ; 
Barns and garners never empty ; 
Vines with clustering bunches growing ; 
Plants with goodly burden bowing ; 

Spring come to you at the farthest, 

In the end of every harvest : 

Scarcity and want shall shun you : 

Ceres' blessing so is on you. Tempest. 



not 



2 . If you are used after your desert, you shall 
'scape whipping. ^^ 



Q You'll be set quick i' the earth, 
And bowled to death with turnips. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

4 The dews of Heaven fall thick l> hlessings on you 
*• Henry VIIL 



140 WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY 

5, the fair goddess fortune 

Falls deep in love with you. 



Coriolanus. 



with eyes of heavy mind, 

I see thy glory, like a shooting star. 
Fall to the base earth from the firmament ! 
Thy sun sets weeping in the lowly west, 
Witnessing storms to come, woe, and unrest : 
Thy friends are fled to wait upon thy foes : 
And crossly to thy good all fortune goes. 

Richard II. 



7. Prosperity ! — the very bond of love. 

Winter's Tale. 



8. Lady. — To waste the treasure of your time with 
foolish knight. 

Twelfth Night. 



8. Gent. — To build upon a foolish woman's promise. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

9, Thou would 'st be great ; 
Art not without ambition, but without 
The illness should attend it. 

Macbeth. 

10. I'll warrant thee from drowning, though thy ship 
were no stronger than a nut-shell. 

Tempest. 



WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY? 141 

11. Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, 
And thou art wedded to calamity. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

12. All present woes shall serve, 
For sweet discourses, in the time to come. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

13. You'll make a swan-like end, fading to music. 

Merchant of Venice. 

14. You shall not die for lack of a dinner. 

As You Like It. 

15. Your memory will outlive your life-time half a year. 

Hamlet. 



16. Rich only to be wretched ; thy great fortunes, 
Will be thy chief afflictions. 

Timon of Athens. 



17. To have your nose snapped off by an old man with- 
out teeth. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 



18. Be not afraid of greatness : some are born great, 
some achieve greatness, and some have greatness 
thrust upon them. Thy fates open their hands, let 
thy blood and spirits embrace them. 

Twelfth Night 



142 WHAT IS TOUR DESTINY? 

19. To be boiled to death with melancholy. 

Twelfth Might 

20. To pluck bright honor from the pale-faced moon ; 
Or dive into the bottom of the deep, 

Where fathom line could never touch the ground, 
And pluck up drowned honor by the locks. 

Henry IV. 

21. Fame, that all hunt after in their lives, 
Shall be registered upon tby brazen tomb. 

Love's Labor Lost. 

22. You will be 

Bereft and gelded of your patrimony. 

Richard II. 

23. There's pippins and cheese to come. 

Merry Wives of Windsor. 

24. Great shall be your comfort in this earthly vale, 
Although by your sight, your sin be multiplied. 

Henry VI 

£5, When your May of life 

Has fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf : 
All that which should accompany old age, 
As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends 
You must not look to have. 

Macbeth* 



WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY 



143 



26. Out of the nettle danger, you'll pluck the flower 

safety. TT TTr 

Henry IV. 

27. You'll find the joys of Heaven, here on earth. 

Merchant of Venice. 

28. Under love's heavy burden you will sink. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

29. You'll be stabbed with a black eye, shot through 
the ear with a love-song ; the very pin of your heart 
cleft with the blind boy's butt-shatt. 

Romeo and Juliet. 

30. You will have your rights, 

With boot, and such addition as your honors 

Have more than merited. 

King Lear. 

31. We'll wail the dimming of your shining star. 

Richard III. 



32. You will be cabin'd, cribbed, confined, bound in 
To saucy doubts and fears. 



33. Lady.— All graces, 

With all the virtues that attend the good, 

Shall still be doubled on you. 

Henry VIII. 



144 WHAT IS YOUR DESTIXY ? 

33. Gent.— You shall have 
Large suras of gold, and doweries with your wife. 

Henry VI. 

34. You'll be set high in fame. 

AIVs Well that Ends Well 

35. To shape your old course in a country new. 

King Lear. 

36. your life exempt from public haunt, will find 

tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in 
stones, and good in everything. 

As You Like It. 

37. When you fall, you'll fall like Lucifer, 
Never to hope again. 

Henry VIII. 

38. I will not be sworn, but love will transform you 
into an oyster. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

39. Lady. — A house and servants shall be yours. 

Merchant of Venice. 

39. Gent. — A wife, a beard, fair health and honesty, 
With threefold love you shall have all these three. 
Love's Labor Lost. 



WHAT IS YOUR DESTINY ? 



145 



40. you will lead a private life, 

And in devotion spend your latter days ; 
To sin's rebuke and thy Creator's praise. 

Henry VI 

41. You will wear an undeserved dignity : 
O that estates, degrees, and offices. 

Were purchased by the merit of the wearer ! 
How many then should cover, that stand bare, 
How many be commanded, that command ? 
How much low peasantry would then be gleaned 
From the true seed of honor ? and how much honor 
Picked from the chaff and ruin of the times 
To be new varnished. ^^ ^ ^.^ 

42. Lady.-l know you'll love in vain, strive against 
hope ; 
Yet in this captious and untenable sieve, 
You ; ll still pour in your love. 

AIVs Well that Ends Well. 

42. Gent.— This is your charge, you shall comprehend 
all vagrom men. 

Much Ado about Nothing. 

Thou shalt be 
Advanced above pale envy's threatening reach ; 
As when the golden sun salutes the morn, 
And having gilt the ocean with his beams, 
Gallops the zodiac in his glistening coach, 
And over-looks the highest peering hills. 

Titus Andronicus. 
7 



43. 



14.6 WHAT IS YOLR DESTINY l 

44, My strong imagination sees a crown 

Dropping upon thy head. 

Tempest. 

45. Thou It be undone by goodness. 

Timon of Athens. 



46. To be contemned and flattered. 

King Lear. 

47. Be thou as pure as snow, as chaste as ice, thou shalt 

not escape calumny. 

Hamlet. 



48. Your life will be a voyage rich with, 

Merchandise. 

Midsvmmer JVtght's Bream. 

49. You have touched the highest point of all your 

greatness ; 
And from the full meridian of your glory, 
You haste now to your setting : you shall fall 
Like a bright exhalation in the evening, 
And no man see you more. 

Henry VIII. 

50. Honor, riches, marriage-blessings, 
Long continuance, and increasing, 
Hourly joys be still upon you ! 
Juno sings her blessiugs on you. 

Tempest. 



AX EPILOGUE. U7 

If we shadows have offended, 

Think but this (and all is mended), 

That you have but slumbered here, 

While these visions did appear. 

And this weak and idle tneme, 

No more yielding but a dream, 

Gentles, do not reprehend ; 

If you pardon we will mend. 

And as I'm an honest Puck, 

If we have unearned luck, 

Now to 'scape the serpents tongue, 

We will make amends ere long : 

Else the Puck a liar call, 

So, good night unto you all. 

Give me your hands, if we be friends, 

And Robin shall restore amends. 

Midsummer JVighCs Dream. 



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